Name: Noviherbaspirillum massiliense (Lagier et al. 2014) Ishii et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Herbaspirillum massiliense Lagier et al. 2014

Etymology: mas.si.li.en’se. L. neut. adj. massiliense, of Massilia, the Latin name of Marseille where the type strain was cultivated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CSUR P159; DSM 25712; JC206

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN657219 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ishii S, Ashida N, Ohno H, Segawa T, Yabe S, Otsuka S, Yokota A, Senoo K. Noviherbaspirillum denitrificans sp. nov., a denitrifying bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and Noviherbaspirillum autotrophicum sp. nov., a denitrifying, facultatively autotrophic bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and proposal to reclassify Herbaspirillum massiliense as Noviherbaspirillum massiliense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1841-1848.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3137-3139.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Noviherbaspirillum massiliense (Lagier et al. 2014) Chaudhary and Kim 2017

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Noviherbaspirillum massiliense (Lagier et al. 2014) Chaudhary and Kim 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Herbaspirillum massiliense Lagier et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01081 (N = 13).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 Noviherbaspirillum massiliense (Lagier et al. 2014) Ishii et al. 2017 is illegitimate because it has no priority. Publication: Chaudhary DK, Kim J. Noviherbaspirillum agri sp. nov., isolated from reclaimed grassland soil, and reclassification of Herbaspirillum massiliense (Lagier et al., 2014) as Noviherbaspirillum massiliense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1508-1515.

Parent taxon: Noviherbaspirillum Lin et al. 2013

Assigned by: Ishii S, Ashida N, Ohno H, Segawa T, Yabe S, Otsuka S, Yokota A, Senoo K. Noviherbaspirillum denitrificans sp. nov., a denitrifying bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and Noviherbaspirillum autotrophicum sp. nov., a denitrifying, facultatively autotrophic bacterium isolated from rice paddy soil and proposal to reclassify Herbaspirillum massiliense as Noviherbaspirillum massiliense comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1841-1848.

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